@drgerke1 @it_is_fareed So you admit is an unworkable Ponzi scheme, but want to keep it spinning until it’s your turn to benefit from it without any worry about how it will impact those who come after you?
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JB
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@it_is_fareed The idea of ordinary people funding themselves after working is totally unrealistic. You’d need at least a quarter of a million, potentially much more. Vast numbers of people can’t save at all, or save only a tiny fraction of that over a lifetime. What’s the alternative?
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Totally disagree - it’s good that we spend a large chunk of tax revenue on pensions, because everybody deserves dignity later in life and only a minuscule proportion of people could ever save enough to fund themselves post-work. I want to be able to retire!
Joe Reeve - 🇬🇧/acc@isnit0
PSA: Pensioner Spending is the single largest line item here - *£160bn*. More than half of all benefit spending. More than NHS England, or all NHS Providers. Want to pay less tax? Reduce the benefits we give to people who’ve had an entire life to prepare and save.
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@FranklinVH2 @ItsTaz1989 I’m so fascinated to know the history and development of this type of signage.
Who did it first and when?
Why were they not restricted by planning? Or was it a case of councils being asleep at the wheel?
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Obviously there’s quite a lot that has been done but regularising the signage does 90% of the work. Complete communist on this matter — small business owners churn out hideous stuff
Sebastian Budner@SebastianWandle
After seeing how popular these transformations are - here’s one from my neighbourhood in @Merton_Council 👇 Haydons Road, 2022 → 2026 New paving, improved shopfronts, and more recently new planting - small changes that have really lifted this little high street.
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@moonsaultpress_ He’s not a journalist. Only by the very weak definitions and standards we hold for that profession nowadays. He is the modern day version of a talk show host.
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Chris Van Vliet is a solid interviewer, you can tell he's informed and does his research. but its completely insane to me that you have Drew McIntyre to interview and the first thing you have to say is something other than "You attended Vince McMahon's 80th birthday party,"
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JB retweetledi
When it comes to pensioners, ignorance of how things work excuses them from the consequences, but when a young person talks about how they were conned into going to uni and getting into debt, with almost zero returns on the investment, it’s our fault and we need to suck it up.
Arron Banks@Arron_banks
We need to look after our elderly, they paid vast amounts of NI & no one told them it was a political Ponzi scheme. This country needs to cut regulation to the bone, reduce the size of the state & go after the 8 million on benefits.
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@WrestleClips … and then before you know it, David Arquette is lifting the World Title
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“I'M TIRED OF TURNING ON THE TV AND SEEING 5’5 GUYS DOING IRONMAN MATCHES”
AYOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭
#Smackdown
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JB retweetledi
The entire Boriswave will be entitled to Pension Credit IF they obtain ILR. Care workers who arrived in their 40s/50s and have never earned a salary >£30k will all be eligible, along with their spouses. This should be a first order concern if you're worried about pension spend.
max tempers@maxtempers
The 'contributory principle' is dead. This is what you're 'entitled' to if you didn't contribute enough years of NI for a full state pension: - Income top up (Up to £11,000 a year) - Housing benefit (Up to £12,000 a year) - Full Council Tax reduction - Free TV licence - Free dental care - Free NHS prescriptions - Free opticians + glasses vouchers - Social tariffs for bills - Warm Home Discount - Cold Weather Payments - Winter Fuel Allowance - Free bus pass - Free home insulation - Boiler grants - Help with moving costs - Hardship funds - Free wigs and fabric supports - Senior Railcard discount - Blue Badge parking scheme (normally disability-linked but Pension Credit can help bypass certain criteria locally) - Court fee remissions - Funeral Expenses Payment - Support for Mortgage Interest - Help with ground rent/service charges - Local food & fuel vouchers Plus a thousand other obscure Martin Lewis benefits
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I could almost cry watching this. I specifically remember desperately wanting to watch this PPV, and not being allowed. Had to settle for Sunday Night Heat, then the scrambled PPV channel. There was simply no way for me to access the broadcast. Now... they're just posting it!
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PSA: Pensioner Spending is the single largest line item here - *£160bn*.
More than half of all benefit spending.
More than NHS England, or all NHS Providers.
Want to pay less tax? Reduce the benefits we give to people who’ve had an entire life to prepare and save.
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@riversorare What is the welfare bill post-1945 if not reparations? Most social housing in London is occupied by foreigners or their descendants. We need to collectively start telling ethno-narcissists to shut up. Stop even engaging.
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One thing I’m surprised about, and I’m sure it will emerge before the next election, is the widespread view of many Labour and left wing politicians that Britain should pay Reparations.
This insane and unjust idea has been bubbling along in Left wing circles for a long while and is bubbling up increasingly often.
When people fully realise the scale of the demands and the fact that it will impose another few decades of austerity onto the two lost decades we have already lost and that our children will effectively be working for nothing like …. Errr …. slave I would expect the blowback on people like @DavidLammy or @BellRibeiroAddy - and the Labour party that has tolerated their inane views - to be absolutely brutal.
Honestly single digit territory.
I’m not a huge fan of @Nigel_Farage but I tell you what: I hate the idea of Reparations more than anything Reform are likely to do. It is a genuinely Far Left policy.
I hope for the good of our democracy that when the full horror of the demands emerge that @Keir_Starmer or whoever the Labour leader is at the time has the courage to throw these lunatics out of the party.
Anyway. You heard it here first. Bookmark for when it blows up as a huge issue…
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One day as a society we’ll be ready to have the honest conversation that most pro-migration and pro-multiculturalism sentiment comes downwind of sexual preferences and is then intellectualised post-hoc.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski says his celebrity crush is Idris Elba [@prospect_uk]
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@simonwatt85 @Ohpalis @YorkieYO Work hard and you could have saved up enough private pension not to have to worry about the state pension. Ah well, Diddums.
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The National Living Wage is right now, £12.21 per hour.
In a 35 hour week you will earn £427.35 so in a year it’s £22,222
Presumably they call it a living wage because that gives you enough to live on.
A pensioner gets £10,000 less than that. Greedy blighters.
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@simonwatt85 91% of pensioners have £0 to pay in housing costs. The average renter in London has about £10-20k pa of housing costs.
Pensions needing £10k pa + in state pension is pure greed.
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JB retweetledi
If I recall correctly when the state pension was introduced, the state pension age 70, and life expectancy was 53 years.
Now the state pension age is 67 and life expectancy is 83 years.
The system was originally designed to give the few who made it to pension age, dignity and comfort in their final few years. It was not designed to sustain them for decades. A radical rethink is needed.
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@Edwina_Currie @MysticStock Edwina says that state pensions should have been invested “by governments” and didn’t, so therefore generation should fund it out of taxation.
If only she was famously part of a government where she slept with the Prime Minister?
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@MysticStock It was never there. It was never invested.
Should have been, but wasn’t.
Our state pension contributions have been spent, every year, by governments, on other “priorities.”
So the state pension is paid out of current taxation.
It’s called short-termism. See?
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You selfish sod.
You can work. We can’t.
We’re old.
And till you get here (IF you get here) you’ve no idea what it’s like.
Old age isn’t for cissies.
It’s for taking your tablets & managing on your pension.
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Joe Reeve - 🇬🇧/acc@isnit0
For the retired people in the comments claiming "I paid more than my fair share". Actually, most of you didn't. You're being subsidised by me, my peers, and the children we won't be able to have.
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@echetus @trevgoes4th Anybody that actually experienced these youth clubs knows that they’re actually a festering ground for violent youth crime. Good kids are going home after school to do homework and play FIFA online, not doss around the area until it gets dark.
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JB retweetledi
Decided to check, and there are 10 youth clubs within two miles of the M&S.
We must wonder what density of youth clubs is required to prevent mass robberies.
Stakeholder Consultant@echetus
Exciting to see “the youth clubs” in the wild in 2026
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@HeatherBo63 No, this is not how it’s always been at all. A group of people from 1950-1970 voted to entrench generous pensions for themselves that they didn’t bequeath to their parents and were unfunded liabilities they knew would have to be paid for by their children.
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Don't want to get into a bun fight here but why am I reading posts from younger people complaining about people getting a state pension?
Errrr, this is how it has always been. When we're young, we work hard for years and then we reach an age where we receive a pension and it's the next generation's turn.
What is it with a lot of younger people nowadays (god, I sound like my dad!), they want it all and would be happy if we just kicked the bucket when we retire.
I receive my state pension in November this year and I'm bloomin' well not going to feel guilty about it. I would never have complained about this when I was younger and working full time. Never even considered it.
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Billionaires do not create jobs. Stop saying it.
Without billionaires, we would still build things, design things, teach things, sell things, buy things.
Billionaires capitalise profits. That's it.
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@BrixtonHatter @LukeJensenJones Ultimately, as Leo wrote in his article and as you’ve pointed out here with your reference to inclusion, it’s not results that are the main prodigy for DH fans, in the same way they are for “traditional fans”. Other values such as inclusivity and being family friend are more so.
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@BrixtonHatter @LukeJensenJones It’s a very middle class thing that any suggestion of this is met with such feigned outrage. It’s not jealously, but if you’re going to co-opt the lifestyles and locales of a the working class some type of acknowledgment rather than “we’re just the same as you”.
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Personally I think it is a bit bizarre and in fact precisely replicative of the phenomena being described to engage in this kind of fetishistic analysis of "the working class".
Leo Gibbons@Layo_FH
I’ve written a blog about middle class hipsterdom and particularly the football hipster. Here are the shots I fired at one of my favourite podcasts.
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